New Delhi sources have stated that nine new
ministers, all from the BJP, took oath at the Rashtrapati Bhavan as Prime
Minister Narendra Modi revamped his cabinet on Sunday. According to sources
four ministers including Dharmendra Pradhan, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Nirmala
Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal have been elevated to Cabinet rank.

Accordingly PM Modi's 76 member new council of
ministers does not have any representation from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh
except for Nirmala Sitaraman who is elected to Rajya Sabha from Karnataka and
she's basically a Tamilian. Her only connection with AP is she is the wife of
Parakala Prabhakar, AP government’s adviser. The only minister from Telangana
BJP's senior leader Bandaru Dattatreya was removed from the cabinet for his
utter non-performance.

Furthermore the only Telugu minister in the Union
Cabinet, Civil Aviation Minister P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju belongs to BJP’s ally
Telugu Desam Party. Moreover the equations in the formation of new cabinet
indicate that the BJP has no hopes in Telangana and AP in the 2019 general
elections though the party claims there is no link between berths in the
Central Cabinet and its electoral prospects.